<<< HUMANE::DISK$SCSI:[NOTES$LIBRARY]DIGITAL.NOTE;1 >>> -< The Digital way of working >- ================================================================================ Note 5247.31 When it rains, it pours... 31 of 31 PHXS01::HEISER "Maranatha!" 15 lines 28-APR-1997 19:17 -< PRISM/MICA project >- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All I have left are the MICA working design document, PRISM system reference manuals, and Pillar compiler manual. The MICA system was based mostly on the Pillar compiler. The kernel was a mixture of Pillar and Macro. Outside the kernel was strictly Pillar. The kernel was ~8K instructions and was not pageable. Support was in place for 64-bit computing on PRISM/Mica, PRISM/Ultrix. It was to act initially as a compute server for a VAX/VMS front-end. What is scary is that Pebble, Moraine, Glacier, Cheyenne, etc., could've been on the market 2 full years before Alpha. Bill Demmer cancelled PRISM in favor of the Argonaut project (VAX-based) and Cutler resigned in anger. Demmer's decision effectively closed many manufacturing plants too. Mike